Fastener tape



H. ROSEN MAN FASTENER TAPE Deg-,8, 1931.

Filed March 18, 1950 INV ATTORNEYJ Patented Dec. 8, 1931 HERMAN ROSENMAN, or

NEWARK, new JERSEY, Assrenon r0 LEO nosnmnnor NEWARK, new JEnsnY res'rnnnn TAPE Application filed. March 18, 1930. Serial No, 436,669.

This invention relates in general to fastener tape which includes a strip or strips of fabric having secured thereto hook fastener elements, and more particularly the invention is directed toward the formation ofsuch tapes with novel and improved means to serve as a resilient lock or mousing for the hooks to hold eyes cooperating with the hooks against accidental disconnection from the corresponding hooks, such means being intendedto replace the ordinary integral resilient wire mousing or hump commonly used in hook fastener elements for the same urpose.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a common means for securing a hook fastener element to a garment or tape and to serve as a resiliently releasing mousing for the hook. r

Other objects are to provide a fastener tape in which the hook fastener elements are secured thereto by any means, including stitching, which also serves the purpose of a resilient mousing for the hook to prevent aecidental disconnection of an eye from the hook; to provide a fastener tape wherein the stitches for securing the base of the hook to the tape are so constructed and arranged as to serve as a resilient lock or mousing for the hook; to provide such a construction which by elimination-of the usual integral wire hump from the hook enables the hook to be made with less wire so as to save a minie mum of approximately thirty-three per cent of wire and thereby reduce the cost of the fastener tape, and to obtain other advantages and results as will be brought out by the following description. c

Referring to the accompanying drawings in which corresponding-and like parts are designated throughout the several views by the same reference characters, I

Figure 1 is a fragmentary top plan view of the fastener tape embodying my invention, showing-the fabric folded and with a fastener hook blank inserted in thev fabric and stitched thereto.

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

fastener Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, showing the bill of the hook completed. I

Figure 4 is a top plan view of the fastener, tape showing the hook completed.

I Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing a modification of the invention, portions being broken away and shown in section for clearness in illustration;

Figure 6 is a transversevertical sectional view on the line 6-6 of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view on the line 7+7 of Figure 5 with the hook completed. i

Figure 8 is, a top plan view of a modified form of fastener tape embodying my inven-. tion.

sectional views on the lines of Figure 8, and p Figure 11 isaperspective view of the fastener shown in Figure 8 with the hook completed. i

Specifically describing the embodiment of the invention described in Figures 1 to f, inclusive, the fastener tape includes a strip of suitablematerial such as cotton fabric, having a main portion 1 and one edge portion folded inwardly at 2 upon said main portion to form a second ply 3 which is again folded 9-9 and 10- 10 Figures 9 and 10 are transverse vertical outwardly at 4 to form anotherply 5. The

other edge portion is folded inwardly over the main portion at 6 to form a ply 7 and is then'folded outwardly atS to form another ply 9. The folds i and 8 are provided at spaced points with corresponding perforations, slits, openings or pierced .holes 10 through which are inserted or in which. are formed hook fastener elements 11 with the base portions 13 disposed between the plies 3and 5. These base portions are substantially loops having arms 131 at substantially right angles to the bill portions 130. In mak-' ing, the fastener tape the hooks maybe applied tothe tape in any suitable manner.- For example the hooks may beformed substantially flat as shown in Figure 1 and inserted throughthe openings 10, and after the base portions of the hooks have been mounted on the fastener tapes,the bills of the hooks v are bent upwardly over the base portions as shown in Figure 4 of the drawings. As described and claimed in an application of Leo Roseman for United States Letters Patent, this operation may be accomplished in any suitable way and by any apparatus which will bend the bills of the hooks as described.

The hooks are secured to the tape by a line of stitching 14 which extends longitudinally of the strip and which is interrupted at each hook to pass laterally of the strip over arms 131 of the base portions of the hook as shown at and as is known to those skilled in the art. In accordance with the invention two offset or lateral stitches 15 and 150 are utilized at each side of each hook and the stitches 15 which pass over the bases of the hooks are superposed and plural or greater in number than usual sothat they form a projection above the surface of the ply 5.

The bases and bills of the hooks thus are in such relation that the stitches 15 are located substantially beneath the bills or ends of the hooks adjacent the outer ends thereof, so as g as . lying the ply v The formed thebillof the hook is g the other edge folded g to'11 inclusive.

to providea seat, clearance or nest for an eye fastener element between the mousing stitches 15 and the bend in the hook. These stitches 15 thus form protuberances or-projections' extending toward the bill of the hook when the latter is bent intofinished relation to'the base 12 as shown in Figures 3 and 4, so that the space between the stitches and the bill of the; hook is normally less than the thickness of the wire of the cooperating eye fastener element. At the same time that the bill 130 is so bent, the flap 9 is folded inwardly at 16. This flap then covers the stitches 15, but the stitches hold the flap in close relation to the overlying bill 130 of the hook, as clearly shown in Figure 3 so that the protuberances thus formed serve as a resilient mousing for thehook and'accomplish the same purpose as theintegral wire hump on known fastener hooks. The tape may be secured to a garment 30 in any known manner as by stitches 31 and 32, as shown inFigure 4. r or A slightmodificationof the invention is shown in Figures 8 toll inclusive, in which the. fastener tape is of a different construc tion, inclu ing a strip B of fabric having one edge folded inwardly to form a ply 17 and inwardly at 18 and returned at 19 to form two oth'er plies overcon'struction with the hook shown in Figure 1 and is arranged between the overlying plies 1 9 and 17, and thehook is secured to" the tape by' a line of stitching 21 which is offset to form stitches 220 and 22 the latterof which overlie the base of the hook just as do the Ist'itches15. I After" the stitches have been so bent into'finishedposition, indicated at 23 in Figures 9 just as are the hook 20 is identical in Inthis form. of the invention, the stitches 22 are multiplied stitches 15, and they remain exposed beneath the ill of the hook so as to form protuberances or projections to act as a mousing for the hook as clearly shown in Figures 9 and 10. Another modification is shown in Figures 5 to 7 inclusive wherein the fabric tape is substantially identical with tha shown in Figure 1. In this form of the invention, after the hook blank 24 has been inserted through the slits or openings in the tape, a cord or the like 25 is laid over the base portions 26 of the hooks, longitudinally of the strip, between the plies 3 and 5 adjacent the fold 4. This cord maybe secured in position in any suitable manner, but preferably is secured by the lateral or offset stitches 271correspondingto the stitches 15 in Figure 1 of the drawings. If desired, an additional longitudinal line of stitching 28 may be provided closely adjacent tothe cord, and passing through the plies 3, 5 and 1. With this construction the lateral stitches 27 need not be multiplied but: may be asknown in the art, and the protuberance to serve as a mousing for the hook is formed by the Figures 6 and 7, beneath'the bill 29.

. Instead of inserting the hooks intothe tape in flat condition and bending the bills as above described after the hooks are sewed to the tape, I may perform the sewing operation after the hooks are completed. It willbe observed that the mousings of the hooks have uniform' resiliency which is practically impossible to attain with known hooks having wire ferences in the resiliency of the wire, ina c'cu rate bending of the wire and relative displacement of the bills of the hooks and the humps caused by handling and otherwise.

It should be understood that the forms of the invention herein illustrated and described, while now' preferred are primarily for the purpose of illustrating the principles of'the invention and that many modifications and changes may be made in'the details of construction of the fastener tape, and in the construction of the mousing, without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Also,.the invention is not limited to use in fastener tapes but may beembodied in fastener elements directly applied to gar ments or the like.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is: r

fastener tape comprising a strip of fabric, hook fastener elements on said strip having bills and bases,- a cord extending across said bases beneath said bills, and means for securing said cord on said strip so as to form mousingsfor said fastener elements. 7

2. The combination of a piece of fabric, a plurality of hook fastener elements each having a base and a bill overlying said base, and

humps because of difa continuous line of stitching; on} said fabric of said fasteners to overlie said base for seplurality of hook fastener elenients'each havbase and a bill overlying said base, the

mg a base having oppositely extending arms each at substantially right angles to the bill at one side thereof, a line of stitching running longitudinally of said set at opposite sides of each fastener element. closely adjacent the bill thereof to overlie said arms of the bases, certain of the lateral stitches being beneath said bill adjacent the outer end thereof and plural and superposed to form collectively a protuberance spaced from said bill a distance lessthan the thickness of an eye to cooperate With said hook.

4. A fastener tape comprising a strip of fabric, a humpless hook on said strip having a base and a bill in overlying spaced relation to said base, and a continuous line of stitching running longitudinally of said strip and laterally offset at opposite sides of said hook to overlie said base for securing said hook to said fabric, said offset stitches being beneath said bill and plural vand superposed to form collectively a protuberance spaced from said bill a distance less than the thickness of an eye to cooperate with saidhook to serve as a mousing.

HERMAN ROSENMAN.

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